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William Herrod-Hempsall, Bee-Keeping new and old: described with pen and camera (London: The British Bee Journal, 1930)
Beekeeper’s home in New Plymouth (New Zealand). Source: Schweizerische Bienen-Zeitung, no. 5 (May 1970)
“We need the research and we need to know more about this beautiful little bee which tells us: ‘Search and always do research if you can know a little about my life and my work, my wax constructions, my production of honey, propolis and venom. And I gather all kinds of flowers, fruits, which you need to live. But you, man, you don’t respect my role in your life. So just take one step and stop destroying my life and my role in your life. Stop the pesticides. Let us live you and me in a very natural and clean place. Because my life is bound to be attached to your life, but too bad, I think you’ll find out when it’s too late. And when I leave this little planet, I wish you, with all my heart, not to follow me.’”
A poem written by Souaf Hassan, Inzerki, Morocco, 2018.
Swarming of Bees, Reference Book 206. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1975 [1970]) Printed in Scotland at HMSO Press, Edinburgh.
Softcover, pp.23. Size: 15.1 (W) × 24.2 cm (H).
ISBN 0 11 240506 1
Contents (index)
Eva Crane, A Book of Honey (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980)
Softcover, pp.193 with black and white illustrations. Size: 17 (W) × 24.3 cm (H).
ISBN 0 19 286010 0
“Honey is a splendid, entirely natural food, which has been treasured by people the world over from earliest times. Its production does not impoverish the environment, but actually enriches it, as bees pollinate the flowers they visit. Today honey is a commodity with an annual production of 800,000 tons, but it is only recently that research has shown how bees locate flowers containing nectar, and produce honey.
The book opens with a clear exposition of the amazing instinctive behaviour of bees, and of the composition and properties of honey. The use of honey in the home is discussed: as a gastronomic delicacy (and the author provides mouth-watering recipes, some new, some several thousand years old); as a remedy (for such ailments as hay fever and hangovers); and as a constituent of cosmetics. Dr. Crane goes on to tell the fascinating story of honey, from times before prehistoric man to the present day, and to show how bees have figured in the minds of men as magical or scared creatures. Numerous literary references show the value accorded to bees through the ages, as agents of industry and thrift, and as objects of superstitious belief. The hive is considered, too, as a political symbol.
Dr. Eva Crane began keeping bees in 1942 when she was given a swarm as a wedding present. She is now Director of the International Bee Research Association and travels widely to lecture and to study bees and honey.”
Blurb from the back cover.
Hiss is a sonic ethnography exploring listening practices in beekeeping. Made in collaboration with the beekeeper Souaf Hassan, the 29-minute piece navigates through the acoustic space of his apiary. Recorded near Inzerki, Morocco – home of the world’s largest migratory apiary – Hiss centres on Hassan’s modest congregation of bee organisms, hived in both traditional and modern beehives. Twenty-two years of practice has provided Hassan with listening abilities to analyse specific sonic cues, allowing him to monitor and predict bee behaviour. Building upon a conversation which discusses these skills, Hiss interweaves recordings of honeybees together with Laurent’s electronic music. The result momentarily unites an array of acoustic communities into a polyphonic interspecies composition.
Graphic design: Dimitri Jeannottat
Mastering: Bob Bellerue
Copy editing: Ellen Lapper
A special thanks to Souaf Hassan, Mohamed Ounih, Gilles Aubry, and the art space LE 18 in Marrakesh.
More than Honey
More than Honey is a Swiss documentary directed by Markus Imhoof about honeybee in California, Switzerland, China and Austria.
http://www.morethanhoneyfilm.com/
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Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth, nostrils, and eyes, 52 × 46 cm, circa 1880, provenance: near Soltau, now: Heimatbund Museum Soltau.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth and nostrils, 39×38 cm, circa 1850, provenance: Rotenburg District, now: Historisches Museum Hannover.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth, nostrils, and eyes, 47×41 cm, 1880-99, previous ownership: unknown, now: Historisches Museum Hannover.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight hole: mouth, 51×37 cm, 1859, previous ownership: unknown, now: Historisches Museum Hannover.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth (main), nostrils, and eyes, 44×42 cm, 1875, provenance: M. Lüdemann, now: Historisches Museum Domherrenhaus Verden.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth (main), nostrils, and eyes, 44×42 cm, 1875, provenance: M. Lüdemann, now: Historisches Museum Domherrenhaus Verden.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth, nostrils, and eyes, 45 × 37 cm, date unknown, provenance: Kaiser, Westen, now: Historisches Museum Domherrenhaus Verden.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth (main) and nostrils, 52×45 cm, 1815, provenance: Brümmerhof near Soltau, now: Heimatverein Peetshof Wietzendorf e.V.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth (main) and nostrils, 43 × 40 cm, 1820-25, provenance: Lüneburg Heath, now: Heimatverein Peetshof Wietzendorf e.V.
The Scottish Beekeeper: Magazine of the Scottish Beekeepers’ Association, Vol. XLVII No. 7
The Scottish Beekeeper: Magazine of the Scottish Beekeepers’ Association, Vol. XLVII No. 7 (July 1970)
Softcover. Size: 18.7 (W) × 24.2 cm (H).
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth (main) and nostrils, 51×34 cm, date unknown, previous ownership: unknown, now: Deutsches Bienenmuseum Weimar.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth (main) and nostrils, 44 × 38 cm, date unknown, previous ownership: unknown, now: Heidemuseum Rischmannshof Walsrode.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight hole: mouth, 41×37 cm, circa 1970, previous ownership: unknown, now: Heidemuseum Rischmannshof Walsrode.
The Scottish Beekeeper: Magazine of the Scottish Beekeepers’ Association, Vol. XLIX No. 8
The Scottish Beekeeper: Magazine of the Scottish Beekeepers’ Association, Vol. XLIX No. 8 (August 1972)
Softcover, pp. 140-151. Size: 18.7 (W) × 24.2 cm (H).
Principal contents:
Bannkorb with a mask, flight hole: mouth, 41×37 cm, circa 1970, previous ownership: unknown, now: Heidemuseum Rischmannshof Walsrode.
The Scottish Beekeeper: Magazine of the Scottish Beekeepers’ Association, Vol. XLIX No. 5
The Scottish Beekeeper: Magazine of the Scottish Beekeepers’ Association, Vol. XLIX No. 5 (May 1972)
Softcover, pp. 92-103. Size: 18.7 (W) × 24.2 cm (H).
Principal contents:
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth, 45 × 42 cm, 1741, previous ownership: unknown, now: Heidemuseum Rischmannshof Walsrode.
The Scottish Beekeeper: Magazine of the Scottish Beekeepers’ Association, Vol. XLIII No. 5
The Scottish Beekeeper: Magazine of the Scottish Beekeepers’ Association, Vol. XLIII No. 5 (May 1966)
Softcover, pp. 88-98. Size: 18.7 (W) × 24.2 cm (H).
Principal contents:
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth, nostrils, and eyes, 40×36 cm, second half of the 18th century/first half of the 19th century, previous ownership: unknown, now: Museum Nienburg.
The Scottish Beekeeper: Magazine of the Scottish Beekeepers’ Association, Vol. XLVII No. 8 (August 1970)
Softcover, pp. 140-151. Size: 18.7 (W) × 24.2 cm (H).
Principal contents:
Lenin as a Beekeeper, painting by Ürjingiin Yadamsüren, Mongolian People’s Republic, 1970
Bannkorb with a front panel, flight holes: mouths, 68×34 cm, second half of the 18th century/ first half of the 19th century, previous ownership: unknown, now: Museum Nienburg.
“Spring Day, Apiary” by Serhiy (Sergey Ivanovich) Svetoslavsky, 1899. Oil on canvas, size: 174 (W) × 138 cm (H). Odessa Fine Art Museum, Ukraine.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth and eyes, 44×39.5 cm, second half of the 18th century/first half of the 19th century, previ- ous ownership: unknown, now: Museum Nienburg.
American Bee Journal, Vol. 116 No.4 (April 1976)
Softcover. Size: 20.3 (W) × 27.9 cm (H).
Bannkorb with a mask and hat, flight holes: mouth and nostrils, 60×42 cm, second half of the 19th century, previous ownership: unknown, now: Museum Nienburg.
American Bee Journal, Vol. 116 No.5 (May 1976)
Softcover. Size: 20.3 (W) × 27.9 cm (H).
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth and nostrils, 46×40 cm, second half of the 18th century, previous ownership: unknown, now: Museum Nienburg.
American Bee Journal, Vol. 116 No.8 (August 1976)
Softcover. Size: 20.3 (W) × 27.9 cm (H).
Bannkorb with a front panel, flight hole: mouth, 50×35 cm, 1808, previous ownership: unknown, now: Museum Nienburg.
American Bee Journal, Vol. 116 No.3 (March 1976)
Softcover. Size: 20.3 (W) × 27.9 cm (H).
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth and eyes, 43 × 41 cm, unknown, previous ownership: date unknown, now: Wilhelm Haase-Bruns’s private collection.
American Bee Journal, Vol. 115 No.3 (March 1975)
Softcover. Size: 20.3 (W) × 27.9 cm (H).
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth and eyes, 43 × 41 cm, unknown, previous ownership: date unknown, now: Dieter Röpke’s private collection.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth and eyes, 44×41 cm, date unknown, previous ownership: unknown, now: Zeidel-Museum Feucht.
American Bee Journal, Vol. 116 No.2 (February 1976)
Softcover. Size: 20.3 (W) × 27.9 cm (H).
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth and eyes, 47×40 cm, date unknown, previous ownership: unknown, now: Zeidel-Museum Feucht.
American Bee Journal, Vol. 115 No.11 (November 1975)
Softcover. Size: 20.3 (W) × 27.9 cm (H).
Bannkorb with a mask, flight hole: mouth, 43×41 cm, date unknown, previous ownership: un- known, now: Zeidel-Museum Feucht.
American Bee Journal, Vol. 116 No.7 (July 1976)
Softcover. Size: 20.3 (W) × 27.9 cm (H).
Bannkorb with shoulders and a mask, flight hole: mouth, 47×42 cm, before 1930, previous ownership: unknown, aktuell: Institut für Bienenkunde Celle.
American Bee Journal, Vol. 116 No.9 (September 1976)
Softcover. Size: 20.3 (W) × 27.9 cm (H).
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth, 43×45 cm, date unknown, previous ownership: unknown, now: Institut für Bienenkunde Celle.
American Bee Journal, Vol. 116 No.10 (October 1976)
Softcover. Size: 20.3 (W) × 27.9 cm (H).
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth and nostrils, 47 × 39 cm, date unknown, previous ownership: unknown, now: Institut für Bienenkunde Celle.
American Bee Journal, Vol. 116 No.6 (June 1976)
Softcover. Size: 20.3 (W) × 27.9 cm (H).
American Bee Journal, Vol. 108 No.7 (July 1968)
Softcover. Size: 20.3 (W) × 27.9 cm (H).
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth and eyes, 48 × 37 cm, date unknown, previous ownership: unknown, now: Institut für Bienenkunde Celle.
American Bee Journal, Vol. 109 No.9 (September 1969)
Softcover. Size: 20.3 (W) × 27.9 cm (H).
Bannkorb with a mask, flight hole: mouth, 50×40 cm, 1881, provenance: Lehrte, now: Institut für Bienenkunde Celle.
American Bee Journal, Vol. 114 No.2 (February 1974)
Softcover. Size: 20.3 (W) × 27.9 cm (H).
Bannkorb with a mask, flight hole: mouth, 46×41 cm, date unknown, previous ownership: unknown, now: Institut für Bienenkunde Celle.
American Bee Journal, Vol. 114 No.4 (April 1974)
Softcover. Size: 20.3 (W) × 27.9 cm (H).
Bannkorb with a mask, flight hole: mouth, 45×43 cm, 1760, provenance: Dachtmissen near Burgdorf, now: Institut für Bienenkunde Celle.
American Bee Journal, Vol. 114 No.5 (May 1974)
Softcover. Size: 20.3 (W) × 27.9 cm (H).
Bannkorb with a mask, flight hole: mouth, 44×41 cm, circa 1930, provenance: environs of Hermannsburg, Amme family in Uetze, now: Institut für Bienenkunde Celle.
Ulee’s Gold
Ulee’s Gold is an American drama film directed by Victor Nuñez and starring Peter Fonda as the main actor. In short, Ulysses Jackson (nicknamed Ulee) is a Vietnam War veteran and a beekeeper that gets into trouble because of his son’s past. Jimmy (his son) his in prison for a bank heist and his former partners track down his wife and Ulee himself to try finding Jimmy’s share of the money left from the heist.
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Bannkorb with a mask, flight hole: mouth, 37 × 32 cm, before 1932, provenance: Elliehausen near Göttingen, now: Institut für Bienenkunde Celle.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth, 35 × 31 cm, before 1932, provenance: Elliehausen near Göttigen, now: Institut für Bienenkunde Celle.
Bannkorb with shoulders and a mask, flight holes: mouth and nostrils, district of Celle, 67×64 cm, second half of the 18th century, provenance: Timme’s farm in Hassel, now: Institut für Bienenkunde Celle.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth, nostrils, and eyes, 45.5×41 cm, first half of the 20th century, provenance: Johannes Dehning’s apiary, Heidberg, in Hans-Günther Brockmann’s private collection since 1966.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth, nostrils, and eyes, 51.5×41 cm, circa 1850, previous ownership: unknown, now: Museum Römstedthaus.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth and under the chin, 42×28 cm, circa 1850, previous ownership: unknown, now: Museum Römstedthaus.
Bannkorb with shoulders and a mask, flight holes: mouth and nostrils, 68×57 cm, second half of the 18th century, provenance: Timme’s farm in Hassel, district of Celle, now: Bomann-Museum Celle.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth (main), nostrils, and eyes, 44 × 39 cm, date unknown, previous ownership: unknown, now: Bomann-Museum Celle.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth (main) and nostrils, 46 × 37 cm, unknown, previous ownership: unknown, now: Bomann-Museum Celle.
Bannkorb with a front panel (oakwood), panel no longer in the original basket, flight hole: mouth, 53 × 42 cm, 1786, provenance: Küker farm, Nienhagen near Schwarmstedt, in Hans-Günther Brockmann’s private collection since 1965.
Bannkorb with a mask (oakwood), basket not original (woven by Bohm), flight hole: mouth, 51×43.5 cm, second half of the 19th century, prove- nance: Körker Beekeeping in Grethem, in Hans-Günther Brockmann’s private collection since around 1965.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth (main), eyes, and nostrils, 43 × 36 cm, second half of the 19th century, provenance: Wortmann’s apiary, Odeweg near Visselhövede, now: Hans-Günther Brockmann’s private collection.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight hole: mouth, 43×41 cm, date unknown, provenance: Martens’s farm, Kükenmoor, now: Hans-Günther Brockmann’s private collection.
Bann- korb with a mask, basket not original, flight holes: mouth (main), nostrils, and eyes, 43 × 40 cm, 1809, provenance: Hörmann’s farm, Bosse near Rethem, now: Hans-Günther Brockmann’s private collection.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight hole: mouth, 42×42 cm, 20th century, provenance: W. Heitmann’s apiary, Krelingen, now: Hans-Günther Brockmann’s private collection.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth (main), nostrils, and eyes, 40 × 42 cm, first half of the 20th century, provenance: W. Blanke’s apiary, Wihelmsdorf near Haste or Wunstorf, now: Hans-Günther Brockmann’s private collection.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth, nostrils, and eyes, 45×44 cm, second half of the 18th century, provenance: Wittmoor near Rethem, now: Hans-Günther Brockmann’s private collection.
Bannkorb with a mask (oakwood), flight holes: mouth, nostrils, and eyes, 46×41 cm, first half of the 19th century, provenance: Dreier’s farm, Otersen near Rethem, now: Hans-Günther Brockmann’s private collection.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight hole: mouth, nostrils, and eyes, 41 × 37 cm, 1901–20, provenance: Robert Knüdel’s apiary, Holm-Seppensen, now: Hans-Günther Brockmann’s private collection.
Bannkorb with a mask (similar mask in Historisches Museum Domherrenhaus Verden), flight hole: mouth, nostrils, and eyes, 39.5 × 43 cm, before 1950, provenance: W. Carstens’s apiary, in Hans-Günther Brockmann’s private collection since 1968.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth, 45 × 45 cm, first half of the 20th century, provenance: Hilmers’s farm, Barnbostel, now: Hans-Günther Brockmann’s private collection.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth, nostrils, and eyes, 44.5 × 44 cm, 20th century, provenance: Hilmers’s farm, Barnbostel, now: Hans-Günther Brockmann’s private collection.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth, nostrils, and eyes (not originally perforated), 44×40 cm, 1901–20, provenance: Brockmann’s apiary, Westenholz near Fallingbostel, now: Hans-Günther Brockmann’s private collection.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth and nostrils, 40 × 36.5 cm, date unknown, provenance: Gerd Bünger, Stellichte, now: Hans-Günther Brockmann’s private collection.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth (main), nostrils, and eyes, 37.5×40 cm, date unknown, provenance: Lüdermann’s apiary, Gross-Heins, now: Hans-Günther Brockmann’s private collection.
Bannkorb with a mask, flight holes: mouth, 38 × 37 cm, before 1951, provenance: Wesseloh’s apiary, Wehnsen, now: Hans-Günther Brockmann’s private collection.
In 1852, the modern beehive was patented. Its subsequent success largely eliminated diversity in beehive design and led to the obsolescence of a varied history of alternative beekeeping techniques. Through an array of archival images, this book uncovers that forgotten history, offering a renewed perspective which challenges conventional historical linear narratives and creates a common ground for future beehive research.
Blurb by Apian (Ellen Lapper & Aladin Borioli)
448 pages, 109 (W) × 154 mm (H). The book was designed by Nicolas Polli and was printed in Switzerland in 2020. It also includes an essay co-written with Ellen Lapper.
The first edition was published in 2020 by RVB Books and Images Vevey, the second (2022) and the third (2023) by RVB Books, FR.
Folllow this link for info about Hives, 2400 B.C.E. – 1852 C.E.
Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984)
A reproduction of The Beekeepers and the Birdnester by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, circa 1568.
Source: Bruno Schier, Der Bienenstand in Mitteleuropa (Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1939; repr. Wiesbaden: Sändig, 1979)
Bee Craft 59, no. 11. (November 1977)
Bee Craft 67, no. 07 ( July 1985)
animal instinct / instinct animal – MBAL, Le Locle (Switzerland)
Installation views of Apian’s work as part of animal instinct / instinct animal group show in MBAL (Musée des Beaux-Arts du Locle, Suisse). The show ran from 14.10.2023 to 25.02.2024, and we showed a multimedia installation titled ‘05.CH.Drugs’. The installation explored the chronic exposure effects of neonicotinoids on bees, explicitly focusing on the impact of these pesticides on their brains.
For the installation, Apian collaborated with digital artist Nephila, visual anthropologist Ellen Lapper, and scholars Dr. Randolf Menzel (Freie Universität) and Dr. Mazi Sanda (University of Ngaoundéré).
Special thanks to curators Dr. Federica Chiocchetti and Séverine Cattin, and the entire MBAL team, especially Sulliane Bressoud, Caroline Bourrus, Fanny Blanc, and Martial Barret.
For more info, visit: https://www.mbal.ch/en/expo/animal-instinct-instinct-animal/
Image by Lucas Olivet.
Image by Lucas Olivet.
Image by Lucas Olivet.
Image by Lucas Olivet.
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